Associated Press
Presidential Election campaigning revs back up Tuesday, with Donald Trump heading to Michigan and Vice President Kamala Harris answering questions at a forum for Black journalists in Pennsylvania — even as authorities continue to investigate a second apparent assassination attempt against Trump that’s roiled the race.
Trump is holding a town hall in Flint, Michigan, and has appearances later in the week in New York, Washington and North Carolina. Harris will participate in a Philadelphia gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists. She skipped the group’s recent gathering in Chicago, but an openly antagonistic appearance there by Trump sparked an uproar when he questioned the Vice President’s racial identity.
Harris has her own stops in Washington, as well as Michigan and Wisconsin, planned in coming days, with both sides zeroing in on the industrial Midwest and Pennsylvania and North Carolina — all battleground areas that could swing an election expected to be exceedingly close.
Trump has claimed, without evidence, that months of criticisms against him by Harris and President Joe Biden inspired the latest attack. That’s despite the former President’s own long history of inflammatory campaign rhetoric and advocacy for jailing or prosecuting his political enemies.
Both Biden and Harris have so far avoided politics in reacting to the attack. Harris has condemned political violence while Biden has called on Congress to increase funding to the Secret Service.
Subsequently arrested, Routh’s past online posts suggest the suspect has not been consistent about his politics in terms of supporting Democrats or Republicans.
That attack came barely two months after Trump was wounded during a rally in Pennsylvania. In fundraising emails, he’s implored supporters, “Fear not.” During an interview on the X social media platform, Trump recounted his experience Sunday, saying he was golfing with a friend and heard “probably four or five” shots being fired in the air.
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Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
6 comments
Word Salad
September 17, 2024 at 1:46 pm
Looking forward to more Kammy word salad. Didn’t get it on the debate, but we got it back on Friday in Pennsylvania. We want more salad Kammy!
Tom
September 17, 2024 at 5:16 pm
Trump’s verbal diarrhea? I’ll take salad thanks. At least salad is good for you.
Dont Say FLA
September 18, 2024 at 10:08 am
Here’s some word salad to tide you over till the next debate (if the bucket of fried CHICKEN, having agreed to two more debates, actually shows up for them)
“…she couldn’t get student loans. They couldn’t get — they didn’t even come close to getting student loans. They didn’t even come close to getting student loans. They taunted young people and a lot of other people that had loans. They can never get this approved. So it doesn’t matter what she says about going to congress. Wonderful. Let’s go to congress. Do it. But the fact is that for years they wanted to get it out of congress and out of the federal government and we did something that everybody said couldn’t be done. And now you have a vote of the people on abortion.”
rick whitaker
September 17, 2024 at 2:37 pm
MAGA MARK, what should i call you, impeach biden, day42, howler monkey, dudette, alexis, word salad or punk’s punk? maga mark fits you so well, i’ll stick with it although i liked howler monkey a lot. it reminds me of my zoo trips as a kid in the 50’s
Dont Say FLA
September 18, 2024 at 10:03 am
Sunday’s attack? The one where tyrannical government agents opened fire on a US citizen on the public setback of a public road for having a rifle on him when that’s legal in Florida even for a guy who is a North Carolina felon because felonies from other states do not count in Florida according to Ron DeSantis when he explained why Donald J Trump gets to vote in Florida despite his 34 felony convictions in NY?
Do felonies from other states count in Florida or not, Rhonda? Make up yer mind, will ya? You’re coming across all kind of confused.
But regardless, the tyrannical government agents who shot at this guy shot at him with no knowledge whether he personally was legal in his rifle carrying or not. He might have been totally legal but they opened fire on him anyways just for doing legal stuff near a guy who wanted to golf but didn’t want to bother with a border wall around his own supposedly fancy golf course when chain link fence works.
And whether he was carrying legal or not, he’d been there twelve hours without shooting anyone, but all of a sudden he required being shot at. What up with that?
I am getting this feeling that somebody’s trying to manufacture demand, or at least acceptance, with his own followers. What does he want them to accept? Obviously: Surrendering their rifles for his safety. He knows they’ll give up their rifles to keep him safe because they love him.
Michael K
September 18, 2024 at 12:35 pm
The latest update: More than 100 additional former national security officials from Republican administrations and former Republican members of Congress endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday after concluding that their party’s nominee, Donald J. Trump, is “unfit to serve again as president.”
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